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the homocrime singles club
"great wacky, catchy pop music" (martin büsser, testcard magazine)
music by our friends: people who inspired us.
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3 cd-rs | screenprinted card sleeve | 12pp card booklet | edition of 100
exhibit l: nomocrime
------------------------------------------------------------ exhibit k: the max levine ensemble & operation: cliff clavin
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exhibit d: the gossip live at homocrime
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exhibit b: monitress video distro sampler
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VERSCHIEDENE
downloads
[ disc 1 ]
[ disc 2 ]
[ disc 3 ]
all mp3s are 320kbps
please note that in several cases these sound better than the individual exhibits that used to be here,
so you might want to delete those & re-download. this particularly applies to exhibit a (now the full set in stereo!)
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coming in a few months on everard
n.b. everything will continue to be free to download: this is just a snazzy set for posterity
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3" cd-r | june 2006
01 drunk granny leotard
02 jean genet 69 positions
03 dempster dumpmaster balz came & went (rough bunnies)
04 husbands the party catches
05 truly kaput hair
06 bare knees people like us
07 winston echo get on your bike (humousexual)
08 vase drenched in gel
09 the 123s o lucky man! (alan price)
[ read the 123s' you are a lucky man! mini-zine ]
because there's nomocrime
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7" | october 2005
A1 pink
A2 bicycle as insurance plan
A3 another song about the rain
A4 the kids are fucking brilliant
operation: cliff clavin
B1 punk rock is not just something you listen to
B2 punk rock is not just something you buy and sell
B3 punk rock is not just for kids
a label split between plan-it-x & loads of others, including us
(t's a benefit for the bloomington bike project & is still available at p-i-x)
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exhibit j: sleeping states
3" cd-r | march 2005
01 new year's revolutions
02 swallows and swifts
03 "oh, happier times"
04 singing in the summertime
05 a trip to nyc
06 equinox
07 leaves in the hallway
08 ... all in all it was a good year
09 december (unwound)
a year in the life of sleeping states
(rumour has it this may be reissued sometime
in a compilation of markland's early stuff)
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exhibit i: truly kaput & the chambermaids
3" cd-r | october 2004
01 twenty one
02 perv medley
03 you did me
04 i'm in pain (i'm brave)
05 the prince nelly
06 sometimes i wish i were a boy (donray & gluck)
ukulele tranny anthems
(the chambermaids = josephine)
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exhibit h: winston echo
3" cd-r | may 2005
01 country and winston
02 winchester cathedral choir
03 sir david
04 waples (never again)
05 seahound (lesbo pig)
06 doing time in the borough
07 cookin'
08 sink + razor
09 june
10 shake
11 weak at the knees
12 sam
troubadour, heartbreaker
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exhibit g: amateurs do it for love
3" cd-r | august 2004
01 the 123s view from gay head (lavender jane)
[ read the 123s' any woman can be a lesbian mini-zine ]
02 lesbo pig tokyo
03 ghost mice sing out (cat stevens)
04 humousexual manc wag
05 francois il stragniero
06 winston echo pets
07 little miss cocky far from home
08 i know i have no collar i know i have no collar
09 the battys speed dating (live)
a comp to mark our first anniversary
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exhibit f: firmturds
3" cd-r | june 2004
01 horny tattooed cycle courier boy
02 na na hey
03 gloves
04 ray's records
05 amateur cops (coping saw)
bedroom project by half of humousexual:
casiotone by the painfully boycrazy
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exhibit e: linus
3" cd-r | april 2004
01 tangy
02 untitled
03 concrete kite flier
instrumental demos from the vast linus archive
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not released, would have been a 3" vcd-r. maybe it'll hit youtube one day
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exhibit c: ho-ho-homocrime
3" cd-r | december 2003
01 firmturds oh well noel
02 ethical world view do they know it's christmas?
03 blue minkies christmas means nothing without presents
04 the mince pies mince pies
05 the cowgirl christmas choir jolene (dolly parton)
06 gelb-orange inviting punk
07 the mince pies no mince pies
08 truly kaput downtown (tony hatch)
09 the mince pies roast chestnuts
10 simon murphy stereogtr no.1
11 jon bonjingles last christmas
12 the cowgirl christmas choir we wish you a merry christmas (trad)
most of the bands only existed until their recording was done, if at all
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not released, would have been a 3" vcd-r
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exhibit a: the battys
3" cd-r | august 2003
01 we are ...
02 hullo song
03 i can't believe i did the whole team
04 querelle
05 yorkie's bar
06 man train!
07 quiero comerte
08 i like ...
two thirds of lesbo pig & all of truly kaput
(recorded live at the cellar, oxford, oxfjord)
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welcome to the homocrime singles club
2cd-r | february 2005
this contained exhibits a to j.
the 'australasian edition' (9 copies) had a very labour-intensive gatefold card sleeve & was sold at (& as a benefit for) queeruption sydney.
because i got really bored of making those, all the rest of the copies (70-ish) came in a stickered envelope. not even stamped. lazy!
martin büsser reviewed it in testcard #15: the medium is the mess:
Homocrime Compilation (DoCD)
Homocrime ist der Name eines queeren "Do It Yourself"-Clubs in London, aus dem das gleichnamige Label hervorging.
Dessen erste Serie von CD-Rs im 3 zoll-Format sowie die beiden CD-Sampler Ho-Ho-Homocrime und Amateurs Do
It For Love sind nun auf einer Doppel-CD mit uber zwei Stunden Spielzeit erhaltlich. Solange Queerness in der
Gesellschaft noch einen Aussenseiterstatus einnimmt, konnte man die Philosophie der hier vertretenen Kunstler
zusammenfassen, sollte queere Musik auch nach "Outsider Music" klingen. Und Letzteres ist nicht als Stigma gemeint,
sondern als lebensfrohes Bekenntnis zu Dilettantismus und einer grundsatzlich schlaffen Wimp-Haltung. Der Titel
des zweiten, auf dieser Compilation vertretenen Samplers, auf dem sich auch die in dieser testcard besprochenen
Lesbo Pig und Humousexual vertreten sind, Amateurs Do It For Love, bringt
die Musik auf den Punkt: Diese Kunstler stehen stolz zu ihrer Amateurhaftigkeit. Hier geht es einzig um die Liebe
zur (wenn auch nicht nur) Musik. Den Auftakter bilden The Battys,
die auch gleich aus dem Rahmen fallen: Ihre Songs mit Titeln wie "Querelle" und "Man Train!" sind larmig-uberdreht,
ganz in Queerpunk-Tradition von Bands wie den Dicks. Alle anderen hier vertretenen Bands sturzen allerdings nicht
punkig mit der Tur ins Haus, sondern bevorzugen Casio und Wandergitarre. Firmturds,
Winston Echo
und Truly Kaput stehen einerseits in der Tradition des "Naive Pop" mit Wurzeln bei Jonathan Richman
und Daniel Johnston, angereichert mit einer gehorigen Spur Wimp-Pop a la Orange Juice, TV Personalities oder King Of
Luxembourg. Perfektion ist zweitrangig. Hier durfen die Gitarren verstimmt schrammeln, da wird beherzt auf einer
Violine gesagt und auf das Kinderxylophon eingekloppelt - wer Etiketten braucht, kann das auch als Antifolk
kategorisieren. Wichtiger aber, als Schubladen aufzumachen, ist die alle Gruppen verbindende Haltung, die eine neue
musikalische Sprache queeren Begehrens anschlagt - an keiner Stelle betroffen, aber auch nicht bewusst artifiziell
gehalten, exaltiert oder glamouros wie im Pop der fruhen 1980er, sondern ebenso unpratentios wie hausmusikalisch
intim. Texte wie "Horny Tattooed Cycle Courier Boy" (Firmturds) oder "View From Gay Head"
(The 123s) behandeln Queerness ganz direkt, pfeifen darauf, irgendetwas zu verschlusseln. Dadurch
bekommt Cat Stevens' "Sing Out", gecovert von Ghost Mice, mit Zeilen wie
"If you wanna be free, be free,/ if you wanna live high, live high/ if you wanna live low, live low" eine ganz neue
Bedeutung. Diesen neuen Talenten jenseits des grossen Popmarktes geht es weder um Popularisierungsstrategien,
Queerness erfolgreich nach aussen zu tragen, noch um Exklusivitatsanspruch, sondern um grossartig abgedrehte und
doch catchy poppige Musik, der Queerness ganz einfach als Klammer
dient.
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(martin büsser | testcard #15 | march 2006)